Canada’s minister of foreign affairs, Anita Anand, on Sunday said she will travel to Paris, France, to take part in a meeting of foreign ministers from the Group of Seven.
Global Affairs Canada said Anand will meet G7 counterparts and invited guests. The department said she will press Canada’s priorities on international peace and security and take up urgent problems around the world. It did not say when the meeting will be held.
In Paris, Anand will pursue Canada’s national security and foreign policy priorities and underline support for cooperation among countries, the department said. It said Canada’s participation restates a pledge to promote international peace and security, defend democratic values and work with partners that share those aims.
Anand will lead talks on Haiti, artificial intelligence and Russia’s war on Ukraine, Global Affairs Canada said. She will also lead discussion of hybrid threats directed at North America, Europe and places beyond those regions. The department said the sessions will give Canada a chance to outline how G7 partners could coordinate more tightly and answer threats to international stability together.
She will take part in further talks on regional issues, the department said. Those include conditions in the Middle East, continuing difficulties across Africa and shifting conditions in the Indo-Pacific.
Anand is also expected to meet counterparts one on one, Global Affairs Canada said. Those meetings are meant to strengthen Canada’s ties with important partners, move shared priorities forward and cover strategic subjects of common interest. The department did not name the ministers she expects to see.
The G7 is an informal grouping, the department said. Its members are Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States, together with the European Union. Meetings of the group’s foreign ministers are a place for candid discussion of pressing global challenges and regional security crises, Global Affairs Canada said.
As reported on Oct. 31, Anand was also due to travel to Atlanta for a G20 foreign ministers meeting and to join Prime Minister Mark Carney at a Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Antigua and Barbuda.